What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Drasko]

Pretty spectacular live Pathetique by Gergiev/Mariinsky from Paris few days ago, on medici.tv. Don't know for how long these videos stay available over there but this one should be heard/seen.

An incredible, rip roaring Rach 3 by Horowitz, live from 1941 with Barbirolli.

Nothing short of amazing performance.

[zorzynek]

earlier tonight:
Glenn Gould - J. S. Bach: Keyboard Concertos, Vol. II
Glenn Gould - W.A.Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

now:
Glenn Gould - Bach: Prelude, Fughettas and Fugues

[George]

Nothing short of amazing performance.

Absolutely. I plan to write up a review for my Rach 3 thread after I hear it again.

[zorzynek]

[MN Dave]

The Prokofiev

[mahler10th]

BAX 5
DL JONES
RSNO

Courtesy of Jeffrey (aka vandermolen) a while back.



Tell you what, these Bax Symphonies fair take some listening to!

ps:  I HAVE MOVED BACK TO SCOTLAND AND AM NOW AS HAPPY AS A BUNCH OF HAGGIS ROAMING AROUND THE INNARDS OF A SHEEP.   

[karlhenning]

Martinů
Symphony № 6 (Fantaisies symphoniques), H.343
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Thomson

[Air]

Charles-Valentin Alkan
Symphony for Solo Piano
Egon Petri

Very good!  No need for any orchestration, it's exciting as is.  (The Concerto was completely wrecked by Klindworth IMHO)

[Conor71]

How do you like the set?  I zipped through mine about a year ago way too fast but finding time to get back to a big box is never easy.

I still dont know these works well enough but the performances and sound on this set seem good to me  .

Now listening:
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 In A Minor, Op. 132, "Heiliger Dankgesang"

[greg]

Dancing to Babbitt. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/p-PJw2lqW7c

[listener]

another opera evening
Virgil THOMSON    Four Saints in Three Acts
      actually a lot of saints, including two Saint Teresa's  and there are four acts
      book by Gertrude Stein

[Harry]

Dancing to Babbitt. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/p-PJw2lqW7c

I would not mind inviting them in my home.

[Harry]

Mozart.
The Sonatas for Fortepiano & Violin.
CD V.
Sonate in F major.
Dedicated to Josepha von Aurnhammer. (Vienna 1781)
Sigiswald Kuijken plays on a Giovanni Grancino, Milano ca. 1700.
Luc Devos plays on a Claude Kelecom, Brussels 2001, after J.A Stein Augsburg 1788.

CD I

Sonata in G major, E flat major, A major



My admiration for this set knows no bounds.

[Harry]

Back home for the time being. Pfffffffffffffff 0:)

Mozart.

Complete Symphonies. CD VI.
No. 20/21/22/23/27

It was a good decision to buy this set, its in all respects better to my liking as Hogwood, although I will buy that set too, when the price is right, if only for all the extras he puts in.

[Florestan]

Andreas Hallén (1846 - 1925)

Romance for violin and orchestra, Op.16

Peter Olofsson / Christopher Fiefield / Gävle Symphony Orchestra

[Florestan]

Andreas Hallén (1846 - 1925)

Sphärenklänge (1895), Symphonic picture.

Christopher Fiefield / Gävle Symphony Orchestra

[Florestan]

Very enjoyable and elegant music from one of the greatest astronomers ever.

[karlhenning]

That's one thing the world needs: more musical astronomers!

[Florestan]

That's one thing the world needs: more musical astronomers!

Why they are not legion baffles me: music of the spheres etc.

[Harry]

Joseph Joachim Raff.
Complete Symphonies.
Symphony No. 5, "Lenore".

Maybe Raff is not everyones bread and butter, but its certainly mine.